Charlotte Angas Scott (1858 - 1931)

British mathematician who made her career in the United States and was influential in the development of American mathematics, including the mathematical education of women. Scott played an important role in Cambridge changing the rules for its famous Mathematical Tripos exam.

Moving to the United States in 1885, she became one of eight founding faculty and Associate Professor of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College, and Professor from 1888 to 1917. She was the first mathematician at Bryn Mawr College and the first department head. During this period she directed the PhD theses of many pioneering women mathematicians. Of the nine women to earn doctorates in mathematics in the nineteenth century, three studied with Scott.

In 1891 she became the first woman to join the New York Mathematical Society, which later became the American Mathematical Society. She served as the first woman on the first Council of the American Mathematical Society in 1894, and received an acclaimed review from the Society in 1896. She is also credited with being the author of the first mathematical research paper written in the US to be widely recognised in Europe, "A Proof of Noether's Fundamental Theorem." (see also entry on Emmy Noether )

In 1906 Scott developed an acute case of rheumatoid arthritis, which along with her increasing deafness, interrupted her work. Under the advice of a doctor to get outside exercise, Scott began gardening and developed a new strain of chrysanthemum.

She retired in 1924, but stayed an extra year in Bryn Mawr to help her eighth doctoral student complete her dissertation before she returned to and settled in Cambridge.

She died in 1931 and buried in Cambridge, in her cousin Eliza Nevin's grave. Source: wikipedia

Known for
algebraic curves

An Introductory Account of Certain Modern Ideas and Methods in Plane Analytical Geometry was published in 1894 and reprinted thirty years later.

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